{"id":523,"date":"2005-12-09T05:38:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T10:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=523"},"modified":"2005-11-27T11:38:26","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T16:38:26","slug":"robofish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/12\/09\/robofish\/","title":{"rendered":"RoboFish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, they&#8217;re real.<br \/>\nActual autonomous robots that mimic fish are no longer just science-fiction.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4313266.stm#\">this article on the BBC<\/a>, the London Aquarium not only has them, but has them swimming in a tank with actual fish.  Primarily as a marketing gimmick at the moment, but, still, they&#8217;re in there just acting like fish.  Currently, they&#8217;re trying to get them to &#8220;feed&#8221; like biological animals, too, but, at the moment, they&#8217;re on batteries that last rough 5 hours.<br \/>\nObviously, these little blighters are part of a scientific experiment to see how the fish and robots interact, as well as representing a step in the ever popular quest for artificial life.  Any way you slice it, robofish are pretty interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, they&#8217;re real. Actual autonomous robots that mimic fish are no longer just science-fiction. According to this article on the BBC, the London Aquarium not only has them, but has them swimming in a tank with actual fish. Primarily as a marketing gimmick at the moment, but, still, they&#8217;re in there just acting like fish. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,28,30],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}